Daniel Dae Kim says success of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ has inadvertently hampered Asian-led films
The blockbuster hit “Crazy Rich Asians” has raised unrealistic expectations for other Asian-led film projects, the actor Daniel Dae Kim said this week at a panel discussion at the Sundance Film Festival.
The blockbuster hit “Crazy Rich Asians” has raised unrealistic expectations for other Asian-led film projects, the actor Daniel Dae Kim said this week at a panel discussion at the Sundance Film Festival.
“One of the collateral damage effects of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ was that everyone wanted to do more Asian projects as long as they were just ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’” Kim said at the Variety-sponsored panel.
“If you had a project that spoke to something other than people being super rich and super wealthy and super happy, then they weren’t interested," he said. "Not only did we have difficulty trying to find other portrayals of Asian Americans, but it also had the additional burden of having to represent all Asians."
Inclusive storytelling shouldn't just be "a category or a checkbox and say, ‘We have our Asian project, we have our Black project, and so we’re good. We’re being diverse,’” Kim said.
The romantic comedy based on the bestselling novel by Kevin Kwan, followed Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) and her boyfriend, Nick (Henry Golding), as they attended Nick’s best friend’s wedding in Singapore.
Rating: 5